Boy Racer

We went looking at cars last night. It was interesting, to say the least. Steve and I discovered we like very different things. It could take a while (and several more test drives) to agree on which car to buy.

The question is: nice, sensible, small family car (an Octavia estate, 6 months old, 1.9TD) or a saucy, racy, Boy-Racer-Red hatchback (a Fabia RS, complete with sporty seats, couple of years old, 1.9TD)?

The Fabia is half the price of the Octavia. We will probably be needing an estate car in a few years' time, when we will hopefully have a young family. But do we need one now? Or should we invest in the estate car now, while we have House money? Or will that mean that I have lived my youth without ever having a nippy little hatchback?

As they have the same engine but are two very different cars it was interesting driving them both. The estate is nice and sensible, perfect for a young family, hard to come by (you buy one, you keep it until either it dies or your family gets too big for it or your kids leave home).

The hatchback is uncontrolled adrenaline. It goes like a rocket. Steve is torn. He likes the Boy-Racer-Red. Somewhere under all the estate cars in his head, there is a boy racer screaming to be let out for one last romp around the country lanes.